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Joshua Zeitz's Flappers

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Joshua Zeitz is a historian explaining the significance of the 1920s and how it changed the cultural roles of women. The 1920s was also known as the Jazz age and Zeitz explore two characters being F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald in his book Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity and the Women who made America Modern. Zeitz specifically argues the flapper was not a sudden change in culture but was a product of American Entertainment and new values of the 1920s.
To begin with, Zeitz mentions how mass media played a major role in creating the idea of the flapper by emphasizing women’s new freedoms to drink, smoke, date, etc. “Flamming Youth left a lot to be desired. Colleen played the role of Pat Fentriss, the teenage daughter

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